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Saturday, February 18, 2017

RIP Pasquale Squitieri

Mourning in the cinema as screenwriter and director
Squitieri has died

Il Mattino

February 18, 2017

Goodbye to Pasquale Squitieri. The director was born in
Naples November 27, 1938, and he passed away this morning surrounded by the
affection of his loved ones in the hospital Villa San Pietro in Rome. His death
was made known by his brother Nicholas, his second wife Ottavia Fusco and
daughter Claudia. The funeral will be held tomorrow in Rome from 11 to 6.

He began his film career in 1969 with “lo e Dio”,
produced by Vittorio De Sica, and under the pseudonym William Redford which he
also used in two filmsspaghetti western
genre films. His career ended very early when Squitieri dedicated his life to
current issues and reality in Italian society: Contacts between the Mafia and
politics, drugs, terrorism, the "white deaths" and immigration. But
his fame is mainly due to his historical and political films, some of which
have earned him much criticism. This is the case of " Li chiamarono...
briganti!", In 1999 he withdrew immediately from the industry under
mysterious circumstances.

In 1971 he writers an open letter to L'Espresso about the
case of Pinelli but over the years moves to the right, and in 1994 he became a
senator in the National Alliance.

He was also famous in the 1970's for his relationship with
the actress Claudia Cardinale with whom he has a daughter Claudia Squitieri
born in 1979.

About Me

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1946 I have a BA degree in American History from Cal St. Northridge. I've been researching the American West and western films since the early 1980s and visiting filming sites in Spain and the U.S.A. Elected a member of the Spaghetti Western Hall of Fame 2010.